LUMP - Climb Every Wall

What this video is

Released June 2021, 'Climb Every Wall' emerged during the tail of global pandemic lockdowns — a moment when UK independent artists were releasing music shaped by isolation, introspection, and limited production resources. LUMP, the collaboration between folk singer-songwriter Laura Marling and Tunng's Mike Lindsay, occupies an art-pop niche informed by psychoanalysis, electronic experimentation, and surrealist…

Why it matters

Represents the 2021 UK art-pop and folktronica avant-garde, wherein Laura Marling's established folk credentials collide with Mike Lindsay's electronic production sensibility to produce work that resists genre classification. The video's rapid-cut experimental visual language mirrors the track's…

The director

Tamsin Topolski is a London-born filmmaker, photographer, and actor trained at Drama Centre London. She has acting credits including Penny Dreadful (2015), The Rook (2019), Slow Horses (2022), and The Madness (2024), alongside a parallel career directing…